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The Doctor Yum Project

The Doctor Yum Project (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,535 to it, the largest being MARY WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE GROUP RETURN ($70,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$343k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$168k
Net assets
$252k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What The Doctor Yum Project does

Mission

The Dr. Yum Project is a non-profit organization on a mission to help families and communities overcome barriers to eating well.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Teaching people how to cook using more fruits, vegetables, and other whole foods by offering resources via our website and partnering with other organizations to help at-risk communities learn to prepare and eat more nutritious foods.

    $12,021 spent
    7% of program spending
  2. Partnering and engaging with physicians and other healthcare providers locally and nationally at annual meetings like the american academy of pediatrics, and providing evidence-based approaches to prevent and treat childhood obesity with lifestyle changes.

    $23,498 spentof which $1,000 as grants$14,994 earned by the program
    13% of program spending
  3. Developing curricula for schools, like our research-based program "dr. Yum's food adventure" to help children and their families learn to cook and eat fresh fruits and vegetables. This includes educating teachers on how to support healthy eating in classrooms and supporting specialists who help children with feeding challenges eat a more nutritious diet.

    $139,510 spent$247,151 earned by the program
    80% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $175,029.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($118k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2018 Revenue 143 ($172k) Expenses 130 ($153k) Net assets 136 ($70k)2019 Revenue 130 ($157k) Expenses 116 ($136k) Net assets 177 ($91k)2020 Revenue 117 ($141k) Expenses 104 ($122k) Net assets 213 ($109k)2021 Revenue 242 ($292k) Expenses 186 ($219k) Net assets 355 ($183k)2022 Revenue 162 ($195k) Expenses 177 ($209k) Net assets 327 ($169k)2023 Revenue 92 ($111k) Expenses 143 ($168k) Net assets 216 ($111k)2024 Revenue 115 ($138k) Expenses 117 ($137k) Net assets 220 ($113k)2025 Revenue 285 ($343k) Expenses 173 ($204k) Net assets 490 ($252k)
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Revenue (285)Expenses (173)Net assets (490)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $118k to $269k (+129%).

$53k
$70k
$92k
$114k
$185k
$178k
$113k
$118k
$269k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

23% of The Doctor Yum Project’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$19k
’18
$21k
’19
$18k
’20
$73k
’21
−$14k
’22
−$57k
’23
$1k
’24
$139k
’25
12
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20212022202320242025
Listed44456
Joined·+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $71.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of The Doctor Yum Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

The Doctor Yum Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Doctor Yum Project.

42%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 48% · 2019 82% · 2020 64% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

33% of The Doctor Yum Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

79% of The Doctor Yum Project's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

NY
MA
VA
DE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Doctor Yum Project runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding The Doctor Yum Project receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750 on record.

State$750
Top programs
  • Conf/Seminars/Workshop-Hosting$750

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like The Doctor Yum Project

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Doctor Yum Project?
The Doctor Yum Project (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $167,535 to it, the largest being MARY WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE GROUP RETURN ($70,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Doctor Yum Project have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $167,535 in grants to The Doctor Yum Project, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Doctor Yum Project?
MARY WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE GROUP RETURN is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Doctor Yum Project find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing